Police piecing together jigsaw in hunt for killer

Police are trawling through hundreds of photos of New Year's Eve revellers in the search for the person responsible for the fatal stabbing of a Brisbane man holidaying with his wife in New Zealand.

Robert Murray Wilkinson, a 64-year-old ex-pat Kiwi, died in Waikato Hospital last Thursday afternoon from stab wounds suffered in the attack at Waihi Beach, a seaside New Zealand town, on New Year's Day.

New Zealand-born Queensland man Robert Murray Wilkinson, who was killed in his homeland on New Year's Day. Photo: Supplied

"We knew there were a lot of people, predominantly intoxicated youths, in and around the area where the attack took place and we have confirmed there were several incidents of assaults and disorder," he said.

"What the response to appeals for information and images has done however, is enable us to identify people, places and times as we piece together the various parts of the jigsaw of our investigation."